Love Freo

Reboot has resurfaced on  Lefroy Street.

You might remember him from such walls as 250 South Terrace…

Essex Street down by the Luna is starting to look like a bit of an art gallery…

Previously I had mourned the loss of The Gramophone on High Street but I saw its bastard child today.

Gramophone II: The Return

Small child having none of it, cover your ears.

Remember Fernando Pessoa? Well there’s five of him floating on the Luna’s wall:

How many is he?

Last but not least: thoughtful and iconic…

Harold Thomas' flag on the power box next to the cinema.

This morning I went down to South Beach Village, to check out the new developments. Gosh, South Fremantle is going to be a busy place with all those new apartments. I just hope it’ll keep its quirky beachy charme, like this display of floatsam and jetsam on a house at the southern end of South Terrace.

The WA government is in the process of amending its anti-graffiti laws to make it illegal to sell graffiti implements to minors.

These will be defined as:

(a) a can of spray paint;

(b) a pen, marker pen, or similar implement, that -
(i)    has a tip over 6 mm wide; and
(ii)   contains a fluid that is not water soluble and that is capable of marking a surface.

However this definition also includes calligraphy, pantone and copic markers and even crayons that school kids use. WTF.

There is something very charming about the paintings on shop walls, which advertise their goods, like these ones which I saw on South Street, on the wall of an IGA, and in the Freo port area, on the wall of an old warehouse, which apparently housed a flower wholesale at some point in the past. The enterprise is long gone, but the flowers on the wall stayed. It must be very satisfying for the artist to create paintings at such a great scale.

This week new laws have been introduced to combat graffiti in WA. Offenders could face one to two years in prison, and $12,000 to $24,000 in fines. Retailers will also be targeted for selling graffiti tools like spray cans to kids with fines of up to $6000 for a first offence and $12,000 for subsequent offences.

I hope genuine street art which proliferates around Fremantle will not suffer.

I ♥ Stencils (Note the tag in the top right-hand corner we could do with a lot less of that.)

A bit more of this type of thing?

ReFace Art on the Streets

Condor Tower Car Park Event | Condor Tower Car Park Photos

Yes please…

See, its not about races
Just places
Faces
Where your blood
Comes from
Is where your space is
Ive seen the bright
Get duller
I’m not going to spend
My life being a color

Yes Michael.  Now this might not be Michael Jackson but that’s who I first thought of when I saw it. It might be Bernard Cribbins. This epic portrait is under the south side of the Stirling Bridge, which is probably the finest example of concrete bridge architecture in all of Freo.

Maybe it is Bernard Cribbins

A Fine Bridge

I spotted a couple of naked ladies around town recently, the first graffito on Cantonment Street in the small alley beside the dive shop:

Coy Naked Lady

The second in the toilets at Mojo’s of North Fremantle:

Not So Coy Naked Lady

John Nixon’s Leake Street Mural called “AC4CA Project 6″ from 2003 has been replaced. If you remember it was a large orange-red dot on a white background in the car park. Now there are large silver stripes, unfortunately I don’t know who did this one.

New Leake Street Mural